Books by Fellows

Since the inception of the AAS fellowship program in 1972, fellows have written over five hundred books based on research conducted at AAS. Below is an illustrated directory of these books. Books may be sorted by author's last name, title, date, subject, and fellowship. Many public programs featuring fellows discussing their books have also been recorded and made available to view online.

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The Medical Imagination by Sari Altschuler

Sari Altschuler

Hench Fellow, 2013-14

The Medical Imagination: Literature and Health in the Early United States

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018)

AAS Catalog Record

Mahogany by Jennifer Anderson

Jennifer Anderson

Hench Fellow, 2006-7

Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America

(Harvard University Press, 2012)

AAS Catalog Record

Bonds of Union by Bridget Ford

Bridget Ford

Hench Fellow, 2002-3

Bonds of Union: Religion, Race, and Politics in a Civil War Borderland

(University of North Carolina Press, 2016)

AAS Catalog Record

Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites by Adam Gordon

Adam Gordon

Hench Fellow, 2011-12

Prophets, Publicists, and Parasites: Antebellum Print Culture and the Rise of the Critic

(University of Massachusetts Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

2020 PHBAC Virtual Book Talk

Bookcover for Riotous Flesh

April Haynes

Hench Fellow, 2009-10

Riotous Flesh: Women, Physiology, and the Solitary Vice in Nineteenth-Century America

(University of Chicago Press, 2015)

AAS Catalog Record

American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 by Melissa Homestead

Melissa Homestead

Hench Fellow, 2000-1

American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869

(Cambridge University Press, 2005)

AAS Catalog Record

Bookcover for Captives of Liberty

T. Cole Jones

Hench Fellow, 2014-15

Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution

(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

The Many Panics of 1837 by  Jessica Leper

Jessica Lepler

Hench Fellow, 2008-9

The Many Panics of 1837: People, Politics, and the Creation of a Transatlantic Financial Crisis

(Cambridge University Press, 2013)

AAS Catalog Record

Urban Appetites by Cindy Lobel

Cindy Lobel

Hench Fellow, 2004-5

Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York

(University of Chicago Press, 2014)

AAS Catalog Record

The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism by Timothy Marr

Timothy Marr

Hench Fellow, 1999-00

The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism

(Cambridge University Press, 2006)

AAS Catalog Record

The Accidental Diarist by Molly McCarthy

Molly McCarthy

Hench Fellow, 2003-4

The Accidental Diarist: A History of the Daily Planner in America

(University of Chicago Press, 2013)

AAS Catalog Record

Indians in the Family by Dawn Peterson

Dawn Peterson

Hench Fellow, 2012-13

Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion

(Harvard University Press, 2017)

AAS Catalog Record

Evangelical Gotham by Kyle Roberts

Kyle Roberts

Hench Fellow, 2007-8

Evangelical Gotham: Religion and the Making of New York City, 1783-1860

(University of Chicago Press, 2016)

AAS Catalog Record

Bookcover for Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery

Daniel Rood

Hench Fellow, 2010-11

The Reinvention of Atlantic Slavery: Technology, Labor, Race, and Capitalism in the Greater Caribbean

(Oxford University Press, 2020)

AAS Catalog Record

Bookcover for American Mirror

Roberto Saba

Hench Fellow, 2017-18

American Mirror: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Emancipation

(Princeton University Press, 2021)

AAS Catalog Record

2022 Public Program

Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity by Renee Sentilles

Renée M. Sentilles

Hench Fellow, 1998-99

Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity

(Cambridge University Press, 2003)

AAS Catalog Record

Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard 1600-1871 by David Silverman

David J. Silverman

Hench Fellow, 2001-2

Faith and Boundaries: Colonists, Christianity, and Community among the Wampanoag Indians of Martha's Vineyard 1600-1871

(Cambridge University Press, 2005)

AAS Catalog Record

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